Mary Ann Cherry

the Jessie O'Bourne art mysteries

While painting on location in one of her family's hayfields, Jessie absentmindedly brushes a note of turquoise onto the canvas. Curious about what added the lovely spot of color, the artist walks over to discover a tennis shoe. The mate is still on the foot of a dying Native American girl crammed between the haybales.

The story becomes more personal when old flame, Sheriff Russell Bonham, reveals that Amber Reynolds, a grad student writing a thesis for her art history major, was attacked while on her way to speak to Jessie's family about two missing Thomas Moran masterpieces worth millions. The paintings disappeared nearly a hundred years ago from St. Benedict's Mission School. Right after the unsolved murder of Jessie's great aunt Kate.

The search for the missing morans

A 2014 award winner - Great Beginnings competition (mystery genre) hosted by the Romance Writers of America...Utah chapter and an Award Finalist in the Reader's Favorites International 2016 Mystery/Sleuth competition